Ten-finger Johnny on the first day of July

[eatshootsnleves]

Who: Roy and whoever else wants to go see ABUH wtf was that.
What: BUH. WHAT THE FLIPPING FRACK WAS THAT. Quicklog. Come out and boggle.
When: Just after Bluest blewsome stuff up; predawn.
Where: The rubble formerly known as Blombrenn Laboratory, Industrial District

Comments

[crazy4pwr]

[Since he's now trying to atone for past sins, Gabriel's hoping there's something that he can do to help. Probably tailed Roy out of the house to the scene. Since Roy's in much better shape, he lagged behind a little.Sees people already gathered around.]

Is everyone alright?

[eatshootsnleves]

Looks good SO far.

[Said from a medium-height perch, doing an eagle-eyed visual sweep with teeny compact binoculars.] Don't hear anything, either. You?

[crazy4pwr]

[Focuses on the noises going on around. Only notices the small sounds made by the others who had just arrived.]

It's almost too quiet. No guards, no alarms. It's like everyone who would normally be watching the place took the night off.

Very lucky... almost too lucky.

[eatshootsnleves]

[Approving.]

Definitely possible that somebody wants to destroy property without killing anybody. Narrows down the motivations nicely too. We need to find out who owns this dump- and whether they gave their people the night off.

[crazy4pwr]

Also might want to find out what this dump used to make, could narrow it down even further.

[Glances around the scene.]

Whoever did this was a professional. Destroyed absolutely everything without damaging the surrounding area.

[Notices the ash falling.]

Looks like the blast went straight up as well.

[eatshootsnleves]

Tell me about it. I want to know where they got their supplies.

[Hops off, lands light.] Nothing we'll find out just standing here, anyway! Feel like asking around?

[crazy4pwr]

[Continues to stare at the rubble]

Honestly? I'm not sure if it'll do any good. This person either has really good connections, or is well liked by all the people. Wouldn't have been able to pull this off otherwise.

[eatshootsnleves]

And in either case they might well be looking for support.

...No, almost definitely. This's meant to polarize.

[crazy4pwr]

... do you think more incidents like this are going to happen?

[eatshootsnleves]

Maybe you didn't notice what with how quiet and nice they're being. But we are living under an occupying army.

[crazy4pwr]

It seems that nothing but trouble has followed since this new king arrived.

By the way, what's your take on him?

[eatshootsnleves]

Well, we were just sitting here asking for it.

He's impressively closemouthed- for a kid. I can't tell whether it's a defense against being awkward, a fear of being rejected, or that he actually has plans he knows we won't like. If it's the latter you'd think he'd lie about it and give us fake plans to chew on instead, but again that might be assuming a little too much, ah, sophistication.

[crazy4pwr]

I suppose... though you'd think an island full of people with various skills and abilities would be able to deal with something like this.

I'm betting on the latter. He's very good at avoiding answering straight-forward questions. He's also got to have some kind of presence to make sure all his soldiers stay quiet and in line.

... I don't know, I just don't really trust him.

[eatshootsnleves]

[Spreads hands, gestures; let's walk and talk. He wants to check this out from the other side- and besides, it'll wake him up.]

You and ninety percent of the people he talked to. Which is why I'm not impressed. His soldiers might be on loan from Daddy, if he was telling the truth about that.

[crazy4pwr]

[Follows his lead]

For some reason I just can't see this kid taking orders from anyone, parent or not. He even hinted that he could possibly defeat the gods by some means...

[pauses for a second]

If it came down to a clash between him and the gods, whose side would you choose? Or would you be on your own side?

[eatshootsnleves]

[Drily] It's that royal air.

Hm. [Shrug.] Their beef isn't mine, so long as they don't use the city for a battleground. The minute they start involving bystanders, though, is the minute I stop being neutral.